Of course we were in uncharted waters! This virus was new but appeared virulent and very unlike SARS which had been successfully contained. No plan existed to deal with this. It had to be created "on the hoof". The "200,000" deaths was what was stated in the interview. So was from memory. I just looked it up. The official statistics say there have been 212,296.

We all know, accept and regret, that the impact of lockdowns on our health services will mean deaths than would have been avoided without them. It's not though the issue.

The issue is whether there would have been more deaths overall if we had not had lockdowns. Just as whether the overall financial costs would have been higher, or lower, with or without and, if lower, whether that cost saving was worth a higher number of deaths.

These are almost impossible questions when they need to be answered at the start of a crisis, with no useful experience to guide you, and need to be made very quickly.

When faced with lose, lose choices you have to choose the least worse.

I criticise those who think they know better, on every subject under the sun, than experts and those who have access to expert advice, They truly are know it alls. I frequently find myself defending expert opinion on here, and then get accused of defending the establishment. I am not interested in the establishment. I do though prefer genuine knowledge to bs.

I was not worried about the lockdowns but I was worried about the forced and coerced untested vaccines and side effects of those on people who did not want nor need them! The fallout from that is I fear greater on the health of people and especially the younger generation.

And also the unnecessary wearing of masks! Especially by the virtue signallers.

Since the total included people who died in traffic accidents or of anything else after a Covid diagnosis it is meaningless.
Developed at speed? The fastest a vaccine had ever been produced previously was four years. How would the global economy have looked if this one had taken that long?

Of course there was a pandemic plan in place - the Government model these scenarios - and it did not include lockdown.

I know you like to think you are always right but on this point you are incorrect.

If you think that over 200’000 people in the UK died specifically from Covid then there really is no point in discussing this matter with you.

All I know is that I managed to catch Covid in mid November and frankly still not right. Very strangely up and down. Can be alright for a day or two - then back again.